Op-Ed:
Spare
Us the Pieties on Gaza
Published:
Saturday, November 17, 2012 6:25 PM
Disproportion?
Innocents in Gaza? Give me a break!
Jack
Engelhard
Jack
Engelhard is the author of “The Bathsheba Deadline” and “Indecent
Proposal”, as well as the award-winning memoir of his experiences
as a Jewish refugee from Europe, "Escape From Mount Moriah".
His latest novel, "The Girls of Cincinnati," is available
on Amazon. He can be reached
at his website www. jackengelhard. com.
Frankly,
given a choice, I prefer the skinheads and other brutes who express
their anti-Semitism openly. In such places, we know the enemy.
But
please spare me the pieties and the righteous indignation of those
“good people” protesting throughout Europe against
Israel’s defensive operation in Gaza. True, thousands have taken up
banners in support of Israel and Jews all over the world are
expressing support. At the same time, however, the streets of Europe
(and even some in America) are in an uproar. These are the
“humanitarians” - the good, the noble, the refined, who chant
“peace.”
Now you’re up and
about? Now you speak? Where were you when, throughout the years,
thousands of jihadist bombs fell on Israel? The streets of Europe
were empty. There were no pictures in the newspapers of grieving
Jewish mothers and fathers, of frightened old people and children.
You called it “peace” as long as the Arabs were doing the killing
and the Jews were doing the dying. All was well with the world.
Suddenly, as Israel
answers back, you found your Cause; and how self-righteous you are in
your Cause.
You
are the best and the brightest of Europe. You are educated. You
attended the finest schools. You care for the birds, the bees, the
bears, the trees. You favor free speech and freedom of religion.
Strange it is that the one and only place in the Middle East that
shares
your world-view is Israel, and it is Israel that you slander.
Israel is a Jewish State.
Is that your problem? At the first hint of Jewish self-defense, how
quickly you show your true colors.
I’ve seen the photos of
your candlelight vigils along the streets and boulevards of Europe,
all of it; all these tears in the service of those terrorists whom
you call your brothers. Indeed you are related to Hamas (and Fatah)
as once before, a mere generation ago, you were related to Hitler’s
stormtroopers. Your angelic faces are touching - and disgusting. Your
hypocrisy is transparent and nauseating.
You
speak of disproportion. You want proportion? Give Israel a population
of 300 million residing in 22 countries, similar to the Arab Muslims
who surround and ambush Israel - instead of six million Jews in
one single country. There’s plenty of “proportion” coming from
your BBC,
which delights in presenting one side of the story and picks up where
Der
Sturmer
left off. Now, with this type of “news”, we know how Europe was
conditioned for a Holocaust.
Already
we see Nights of Broken
Glass.
Thank you, Europe, for reminding us why America was discovered just
in time (and why Israel was redeemed many generations too late). You
dare judge Israel? In your deportations, your expulsions, your forced
conversions, your inquisitions, your pogroms, you have no moral
authority over Israel or even within your own borders. You gave all
that up from 1492 to 1942.
To
those on the Left who sought peace, well, dear peace-lovers, peace
brought this on. “Land for Peace” made this happen, as Land for
Peace became Land for Jihad.
“Painful Concessions” caused this war. “Goodwill Gestures”
backfired.
Want more “peace”? Give up the Golan Heights. Give up the entire
"West Bank". Give up Jerusalem. Imagine the “peace.”
As for those “innocent
civilians” in Gaza, they were given a choice and they chose Hamas.
They chose this pestilence.
As for those “refugee
camps” - why are they “refugee camps” when Israel handed over
all that territory for a nation to be built in peace and security
alongside Israel? Why are all Palestinians automatically refugees
even after they’ve been given a home? The only true refugees are
the thousands of Israelis who were driven from Gaza and still live in
trailer parks. No tears for them in this world that still dreams of
Auschwitz.
Once,
in response to a column I wrote about Theresienstadt, someone
responded that I was incorrect; that Theresienstadt was not a prelude
to Auschwitz, but rather “a vacation
resort.”
I wrote back wishing this person a lifetime in such vacation resorts.
I wish the same lifetime vacation resorts to all those parading
throughout the streets of Europe or demonstating in New York at the
Israeli Consulate, with banners crying, “Death to Israel.”
God bless the IDF! Go
Israel!
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